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* Prison - Real knives are hard to get and quickly confisticated. So convicts improvise a LOT. All of the above is used, with the addition of broken glass, plastic bags, elastic bands, gum, toothbrushes, and many, many other things.
* Kitchen - [[Knife Nut|knives]] and [[Knife Outline|lots of 'em]], hot pots of coffee, [[Projectile Toast|toasters]] (whacking opponents with the toaster is an option), [[Frying Pan of Doom|frying pans]], [[Rolling Pin of Doom|rolling pins]], [[Edible Bludgeon|any large, solid mass of frozen food]] (which gives a whole new meaning to [[Lethal Chef]]); when applying to silverware specifically, it is [[Fork Fencing]], A fridge, the microwave, [[Deep Fried Whatever|deep-fat fryers]], a hot stovetop (those things burn a LOT, as will the fryers), china dishes, plates (break one upon the opponent's head, then use the shards as makeshift knives or throwing stars).
* The wilderness -- branches, fire, rocks, avalanches, [[
* Construction Sites -- [[Wrench Whack|wrenches]], [[Shovel Strike|shovels]], [[Drop the Hammer|hammers]], [[An Axe to Grind|hatchets]], [[Pipe Pain|pipes]], iron bars, wooden stick, [[Powerful Pick|pickaxes]], paint buckets, blowtorches, [[Aerosol Flamethrower|aerosol flamethrowers]], [[Crowbar Combatant|crowbars]], hacksaws, [[This Is a Drill|portable drills]], [[Chainsaw Good|power cutters]], [[Nail Em|rivet guns]], welding equipment, bulldozers, excavators, [[Car Fu|trucks]], [[Forklift Fu|forklifts]], [[Chain Pain|chains]], and many other tools.
* Farmland -- pitchforks, hoes, [[Shovel Strike|shovels]], rakes.
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* Anywhere in your own home-- cameras (those flash bulbs are always a handy distraction), the couch, pet cages (especially if Fido or Fluffy is inside), the indoor fireplace (HOT HOT HOOOOT!!!), or [[Cloth Fu|towels, blankets, and curtains]].
More and more video games, especially those with [[Ragdoll Physics]], allow the use of environment items as a weapon. Even in early [[Beat
[[Superhero|Super Heroes]] and [[Humongous Mecha]] have a penchant for using even larger objects, like light poles, road signs and mailboxes.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Cilan, in an episode of [[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]] had his Pokemon incapacitated due to poisoning. So he had to fight off a Stunfisk with a fishing rod. He is able to keep the Pokemon at bay, {{spoiler|and sufficiently weakens it enough to catch it.}}
* When Tomo in ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'' accidentally wacks Yukari in the face with a cafeteria tray, Yukari retaliates with [[Dual
* Kirika from ''[[Noir]]'' is spectacularly good at this, able to take virtually anything at hand, even an item carried by her opponent, weaponize it and kill him in a second. On one occasion, she uses a [[Mooks|mook]]'s eyeglass earpiece as a shiv. In another, she takes apart a toy car at a dead sprint and drives the wheel axle into someone's spine. In yet a third, she slits an interrogator's throat with an ID card, [[Crazy Awesome|while barely able to stand from blood loss after being gut-shot.]] Another time she snaps her opponent's neck with his own ''tie''. And then there's the time when she piths a mook at a cocktail party by driving a martini olive skewer into his brainstem. And don't even mention the silverware. Probably her tamest improv gig features using popcorn as a field-expedient mook detector in a pitch black room (mook steps on popcorn, popcorn crunches, mook eats bullets).
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''
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* [[Deaths Head]] from [[Marvel Comics]] is willing to improvise weapons from whatever is at hand, including furniture, barbecue skewers, and doors. If the room isn't empty, he's armed.
* Marv from ''[[Sin City]]'' has made great use of his surroundings in order to bash enemies' brains in.
* [[Tintin (Comic Book)]] frequently makes use of this trope to get out of the unusual situations he's thrown into, for example, he knocks a butler out using a phone in ''Secret of the Unicorn''.
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* The [[Chuck Norris]] movie ''An Eye for an Eye'' has Mako as Norris' sensei knock down one of several attackers, then render the [[Mook]] fully unconscious by hitting him with a desktop telephone (rotary, no less). He growls, "The warrior uses what is at hand!"
* The climax of ''Arabesque'' shows Gregory Peck killing the villains {{spoiler|with a ''ladder'' -- by jamming it down through the girders under a bridge into the rotor of their helicopter as they fly below trying to shoot him}}.
* In ''[[Friday the
** In the previous movie, Jason [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|picks up a camper in her sleeping bag, and swings it into a tree]].
** And in ''Jason X'', he [[Grievous Harm With a Body|kills two holographic campers with each other.]] In nearly every film in the series, something not intended as a weapon is used as one. Ice pick, crochet needle, throwing dart, an electric guitar, and a ''belt'' are all used to kill people.
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* In ''[[District 9]]'', {{spoiler|Wikus and Christopher escape from the MNU genetics research facility when Christopher improvises a bomb out some random pieces of alien technology left sitting around.}} Later on, {{spoiler|Wikus uses the [[Half Life|Gravity Gun]] on a prawn mini-mech to hurl a pig at a soldier with rather devastating results.}}
* In ''[[Kill Bill (Film)|Kill Bill]]'', after her sword is knocked out of her hands, the Bride kills Go-Go Yubari with a broken table leg with nails in it.
** She also gets her revenge on [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|the hospital orderly who pimped her out]] by putting his head in a door and slamming it.
* ''[[Ip Man]]'' may be a [[Martial Pacifist]], but if pushed has no qualms against using a feather duster, a long bamboo rod, wood pallets etc. to fight.
* In ''[[The Mist]]'', [[Never Mess With Granny|an elderly English teacher]] [[Boom Headshot|clocks a delusional religious fanatic in the face with a can of peas]], among many examples throughout the meat of the movie.
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* In ''Law Abiding Citizen'', all that Clyde wants is his steak. His Porterhouse steak. Turns out, the bone is a pretty effective punch dagger.
* ''[[Zombieland (Film)|Zombieland]]'' - Jesse Eisenberg's character kills his newly reanimated neighbour with the lid off a toilet cistern.
* Twice in ''[[Captain America:
* The 2009 remake of ''[[The Last House On the Left (Film)|The Last House On the Left]]'': Knives, wine bottle, roofing hammer, ottoman, mattress, lamp, hot water...
* In ''[[Crocodile Dundee (Film)|Crocodile Dundee]]'', the chauffeur who was driving around Mick yanked the in-car phone antenna off of the limo he was driving, and used it as a boomerang to take down a fleeing [[Mook]].
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** At one point, the player gets the chance to turn a gigantic magnetic crane into a weapon. Few things say "you're fucked" like having a shipping container dropped on your head.
* None of the ''[[Left 4 Dead]] 2'' melee weapons was originally designed for whacking zombies, to say the least.
* ''[[Dead Rising]]'' for the Xbox 360 has this as a main selling point. ''Any'' item that Frank can lift can be used to kill zombies, up to and including a deck parasol. An [[X Box]] Achievement is actually called "It's Raining Men" and involves using the deck parasol to push a number of zombies out of the way. It's actually a great item to clear a path. Bowling balls will knock over zombies like bowling ''pins''. In a pinch, park benches will kill a dozen zombies in a single swing - and then break. Now, burning zombie faces with a heated frying pan, throwing soda cans at zombies heads or embedding a ketchup bottle there... [[Rule of Funny|that's just silly]]. To say nothing of the Shower Head, now. Zombies seem to have [[High
** The sequel takes it [[Up to Eleven]] with ''improvised'' improvised weapons - just add '''[[Duct Tape for Everything]]'''. In fact, the only useful melee weapons are the [http://deadrising.wikia.com/wiki/Combo_Weapons Combo Weapons]. [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|Shooting them]] works just fine too.
* ''[[Bio Shock]]'' includes a Telekinesis skill, which allows you to kill enemies by smashing a bag of potato chips into their heads at high velocity. Also, your first weapon is a pipe wrench.
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* ''Slave Zero'' for the PC. The main character is a [[Humongous Mecha]] who can use metal girders, pipes, cars and indeed people as both thrown projectiles and melee weapons. It is not explained how holding a screaming, flailing tiny person causes a punch to deal more damage. Such things are obviously only good once if thrown, but will last for several hits if used in melee. Note that people who get thrown on walls leave a satisfying bloody mess. Also note that gravity has no influence on the trajectory of launched items: they all travel in a straight line.
* ''Fighting Force'' is an old videogame in which the main character can use a lot of the level's objects to bash his enemies' heads in (both by smashing and throwing), including (but not limited to) handrails, girders, fire axes, subway tokens, luggage and fire hydrants. In an interesting twist, shooting a car with an explosive weapon will cause it to explode and lose its tires and engine block, all of which can be used as weapons.
** Really, just pick a [[Beat
* ''[[Jade Empire]]'' allows the character to pick up legs from broken tables and similar wreckage, but these [[Breakable Weapons|shatter into tiny fragments after one use]].
** This was really only doable in the Tea House fight. You could backflip to break furniture and pick it up, the character shouting "I'll improvise!", and pummel the bad guys with chair legs and hams, but this was the only place where you could do this.
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* The cult RPG ''[[Earthbound]]'' for the Super Nintendo practically epitomizes this trope, as the main characters (all of them [[Kid Hero|young children]]) have to defeat enemies using improvised weapons such as [[Batter Up|baseball bats]], [[Frying Pan of Doom|frying pans]] and bottle rockets, just to name a few. The game even goes one step further, when, during the final boss battle, the character must use the power of prayer to help them get an edge over the last enemy. To be fair, the last boss of said game had become Evil Incarnate by eating an [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|apple of knowledge]]. You'd be praying for humanity and any good willed divinity you believed in as well if you had to fight [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gbG_gzgyJI this].
* In the classic NES beat-em-up ''[[River City Ransom]]'', you can use various objects like pipes, tires, trash cans, baseballs, boxes, rocks, even unconscious foes as weapons. You can either throw them or use them as a club, leading to tons of wonderful fights where you knock someone out by tossing a tire at their head, then picking up their body and whacking their buddy with it.
* The bread-and-butter of the combat system in [[First
* The ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' series feature a large variety of items that can mostly be used offensively in some way. Among other things, a Paper Fan, Mr. Saturn (from ''[[Earthbound]]''), Smoke Bombs and Pokéballs (not only to release the Pokémon inside, the ball itself can hurt characters). Even Springs can be thrown at enemies for some damage. And ''keys''. And then there are characters that use things like an umbrella (Peach), turnips (Peach again), Pikmin (Olimar) or a chair (Mr.Game&Watch) to fight their enemies.<br /><br />Every single one of Mr. Game & Watch's attacks is an outrageously over-the-top weapon, from his manhole cover to a can of bug spray to various hammers (grand total three... not including the hammer items) to cooked meat out of a frying pan and the frying pan itself to a turtle. And they're all taken from actual Game & Watch games. Mr. Game & Watch is the honest-to-god ''embodiment'' of this trope.
* ''[[Pokémon (Video Game)|Pokémon]]'' is full of these.
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* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', if you can hold it, you can kill someone with it. This includes a handful of sand, a handful of vomit, a handful of gravel, and ''the enemy's own pants''.
** That applies mostly to throwing the improvised weapon (swinging a pair of pants does mostly what it sounds like it would do){{hottip Unless you are exceptionally big and strong. Bronze collossi have been known to beat dwarves to death with a sock. However, it isn't as effective as punching them.}}. However, throwing seem to turn even sand into deadly projectiles.
*** Not just sand, [[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp|Fluffy Wamblers]] were [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=56935.0 confirmed] as being able to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|decapitate Bronze Collossi]].
** Or there's this little gem that was [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=44778.msg867205#msg867205 recently posted on the forums]:
** Also, miners' picks are not only useable as weapons, but very good when used as weapons.
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== Web Animation ==
* In ''[[Broken Saints]]'', Raimi defeats {{spoiler|a deranged Kamimura}} by picking up a mirror off the ground in the alleyway and smashing it over his head.
* Tifa in ''[[Dead Fantasy]]''. Hold on this might take a while... [[Drunken Boxing|Ether bottles]], bits of lava stuck to her shoes, a table, a garage jack, the same garage jack [[Dual
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]:'' "Protect me cone!"
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** This trope is taken to the extreme when Batman uses the Justice League Space Station to take out a gigantic thanagarian wormhole-generator by destabilizing it's orbit and then manually steering it to it's target.
*** Which is similar to him steering a giant toy robot into a kryptonite Asteroid in '''Superman/Batman: Public Enemies'''.
* Prowl of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' occasionally improvises; in his first fight against Lockdown, he came at the bounty hunter with a metal pole he picked up from a pile of scrap, and his [[Merchandise
** Parodied in [http://www.insecticons.com/insecticomics/v5/437.html this Insecticomics strip].
* Dinobot from ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' manages to smack the [[MacGuffin]] out of Megatron with a stick with a rock jutting out of it. One of the proto-humans winds up using this as a weapon/tool.
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